"Have A Go Have A Go was a BBC Radio show that ran from 1946 to 1967. Hosted by Wilfred Pickles and co-presented with his wife Mabel (nee Myerscough), it involved the couple travelling to venues around the UK and speaking to members of the public, who were then invited to answer quiz questions in the hope of winning a small amount of money. It was the first quiz show in Britain to offer such a prize. Pickles' presentation style resulted in catchphrases as ""How do, how are yer?"", ""Are yer courting?"", ""What's on the table, Mabel?"" and ""Give him"
"Go (radio) Go! was a Saturday morning entertainment show on the Radio One network of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that ran from 2002 to 2010, hosted by Brent Bambury. The show included interviews, music, live performances, and comedy bits. The show was produced in Ottawa before moving to Toronto in 2005. After 2004, most episodes were broadcast in front of a live studio audience. The show's format commonly took the form of a pop culture contest of some type. For example, three celebrities would compete against each other in a trivia match, or celebrity judges would evaluate amateur stand-up comedians"
"Go (game show) Go is an American television game show created by Bob Stewart and aired on NBC from October 3, 1983 to January 20, 1984. The show featured two teams, each composed of four contestants and a celebrity. The teams had to construct questions one word at a time to convey a word or phrase to their teammates. The concept of ""Go"" was based on a bonus round used on ""Chain Reaction"", another game show created by Stewart. Los Angeles and Buffalo meteorologist Kevin O'Connell was the show's host, and Johnny Gilbert was the announcer, with Jack Clark substituting"
"C'mon, Have A Go! C'mon, Have A Go! was an Australian television game show broadcast on the Seven Network in 1985 and 1986. The show was hosted by Tony Young. Contestants were drawn from the studio audience and encouraged to participate in games outside their declared area of expertise - using the show's title as a chanted catchphrase. Young would subject incorrect answers to a good-natured ribbing, drawing on his talents as a stand-up comedian. When creator and lead producer Sandy Scott left to work on a revival of the ""Family Feud"" format for Seven, the network dropped a planned"
"third season of ""C'mon"" from its 1987 lineup. Tony Young resumed a radio career in his native Adelaide. Since 1995 he has worked as a media consultant. C'mon, Have A Go! C'mon, Have A Go! was an Australian television game show broadcast on the Seven Network in 1985 and 1986. The show was hosted by Tony Young. Contestants were drawn from the studio audience and encouraged to participate in games outside their declared area of expertise - using the show's title as a chanted catchphrase. Young would subject incorrect answers to a good-natured ribbing, drawing on his talents as a"
"Bob Goen Robert Kuehl ""Bob"" Goen (born December 1, 1954) is an American game show emcee and television personality, best known for his work on ""Entertainment Tonight"" between 1993 and 2004. He hosted ""GSN Radio"", an internet radio game show, with his wife Marianne Curan. Goen was born in Long Beach, California, but was raised in Los Angeles's suburb of Lakewood, California. In a 2009 interview at the Game Show Awards Red Carpet, he stated when he was 5, he always dreamed of becoming a game show host, with the encouragement of: Bob Barker, Bill Cullen, Bob Eubanks, Tom Kennedy,"
"Bob Goen Robert Kuehl ""Bob"" Goen (born December 1, 1954) is an American game show emcee and television personality, best known for his work on ""Entertainment Tonight"" between 1993 and 2004. He hosted ""GSN Radio"", an internet radio game show, with his wife Marianne Curan. Goen was born in Long Beach, California, but was raised in Los Angeles's suburb of Lakewood, California. In a 2009 interview at the Game Show Awards Red Carpet, he stated when he was 5, he always dreamed of becoming a game show host, with the encouragement of: Bob Barker, Bill Cullen, Bob Eubanks, Tom Kennedy,"
"of major. He left the army in 1947. Returning to civilian life, Colehan moved into working for the BBC. He first came to prominence in 1948 as the producer responsible for the radio quiz programme ""Have A Go"", hosted by Wilfred Pickles. The programme was recorded on location at community centres and town halls across the UK. Colehan would personally hand the prize money to the winning contestant, in response to the audience cry of ""Give him (or her) the money, Barney!"" As a light entertainment producer Colehan produced the first programme when television arrived in the North of England"
"End theatre, on television and on film. His most significant work was as host of the BBC Radio show ""Have A Go"", which ran from 1946 to 1967 and launched such catchphrases as ""How do, how are yer?"", ""Are yer courting?"", ""What's on the table, Mabel?"" and ""Give him the money, Barney"", delivered in Pickles's inimitable style. He appeared in the show with his wife Mabel, whom he had married at Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church, Ainsdale, Southport on 20 September 1930. The series attracted a weekly audience of over 20 million and a mailbag of around 5,000 letters. Contestants"
"Going, Going, Gone (TV series) Going, Going, Gone was an antiques quiz show in the UK during the 1990s, which was shown on BBC Two and which was produced by BBC Scotland in Glasgow. The show ran from 16 October 1995 to 11 March 1998, and aired 144 programmes. Originally presented by Andy Craig and assisted by antiques expert Eric Knowles, the final series was hosted by Stuart Hall. The programme's format was simple: three celebrities described an antique and gave it a valuation. One is telling the truth and the other two are lying. The two contestants had to"
"1970s. A live musical guest also appeared, performing three or four numbers during the course of the show. The last episode of the show aired on June 26, 2010. In September, Bambury launched a new public affairs magazine show, ""Day 6"", in the same time slot. ""Go's"" weekly listener montage contest was retained on ""Day 6"" as ""Riffed from the Headlines"". Go (radio) Go! was a Saturday morning entertainment show on the Radio One network of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that ran from 2002 to 2010, hosted by Brent Bambury. The show included interviews, music, live performances, and comedy bits."
"Peter Sinclair (broadcaster) Peter Sinclair (15 November 1937 – 8 August 2001) was a New Zealand television personality and radio host. Born in Sydney, Australia, he rose to fame in the 1960s and early 1970s firstly on New Zealand radio and then as host of ""Let's Go"", ""Happen Inn"" and ""C'mon"", New Zealand's primary rock music television shows of the time. In the late 1970s he reinvented his place in New Zealand television as presenter and quizmaster on ""University Challenge"" and ""Mastermind"", two popular television quiz shows which ran until the late 1980s. Sinclair's measured on-screen personality was suited to"
"Celebrities included Eric Knowles, Anne Gregg, Jilly Goolden, Tim Wonnacott, Lowri Turner and Simon Hoggart. Going, Going, Gone (TV series) Going, Going, Gone was an antiques quiz show in the UK during the 1990s, which was shown on BBC Two and which was produced by BBC Scotland in Glasgow. The show ran from 16 October 1995 to 11 March 1998, and aired 144 programmes. Originally presented by Andy Craig and assisted by antiques expert Eric Knowles, the final series was hosted by Stuart Hall. The programme's format was simple: three celebrities described an antique and gave it a valuation. One"
"Bob Dyer Robert Neal Dyer OBE (22 May 19099 January 1984), who took the stage name of Bob Dyer, was a Gold Logie-award-winning American-born vaudeville entertainer and singer, radio and television personality, and radio and television quiz show host who made his name in Australia. Dyer is best known for the long-running radio and then television quiz show, ""Pick a Box"". At the height of his radio career, Dyer and his friend and rival, Jack Davey, were regarded as Australia's top quiz comperes. Bob and his wife, Dolly, were probably, after Sir Robert and Dame Pattie Menzies, the most recognised"
"Jay Jackson Jesse Greene ""Jay"" Jackson (November 4, 1918 – August 16, 2005) was an American radio and television quiz show host and announcer. Jackson was the master of ceremonies of the panel quiz show ""Twenty Questions"" when it aired on the ABC Television Network starting in early 1953 and ending in May 1955. He then hosted the nighttime version of the popular quiz show ""Tic-Tac-Dough"" from its debut on September 12, 1957 through September 1958, yielding that job to Win Elliot for the remaining 13 weeks of the show's nighttime run (September 1957 – December 1958). Jackson was featured"
"He brought a great deal of pride to his business."" Larry King Larry King (born Lawrence Harvey Zeiger; November 19, 1933) is an American television and radio host, whose work has been recognized with awards including two Peabodys, an Emmy award, and 10 Cable ACE Awards. King began as a local Florida journalist and radio interviewer in the 1950s and 1960s and gained prominence beginning in 1978 as host of ""The Larry King Show"", an all-night nationwide call-in radio program heard on the Mutual Broadcasting System. From 1985 to 2010, he hosted the nightly interview television program ""Larry King Live"""
"Jordan, Jesse, Go! Jordan, Jesse, Go! (often abbreviated to JJGO) is a weekly comedy audio podcast, which began airing in 2007. It is hosted by comedian Jordan Morris, a writer on the Comedy Central show @midnight, and Jesse Thorn, a public radio host. The show is part of Maximum Fun, an independent podcast and radio show production organization founded and run by Thorn. The format of the show is typically a conversation between Thorn, Morris, and a guest on the show. Fans of the podcast are known as ""Tuppies."" Thorn and Morris met as students at the University of California,"
"developed Alzheimer's disease and became reclusive until his death in 1984. Dolly died almost twenty one years later, on Christmas Day 2004. Bob Dyer Robert Neal Dyer OBE (22 May 19099 January 1984), who took the stage name of Bob Dyer, was a Gold Logie-award-winning American-born vaudeville entertainer and singer, radio and television personality, and radio and television quiz show host who made his name in Australia. Dyer is best known for the long-running radio and then television quiz show, ""Pick a Box"". At the height of his radio career, Dyer and his friend and rival, Jack Davey, were regarded"
"all night"". A review in ""The Guardian"" suggested that while the guest interviews could be ""revealing"", the show was too lengthy and the opening segment was ""nonsense"". Jordan, Jesse, Go! Jordan, Jesse, Go! (often abbreviated to JJGO) is a weekly comedy audio podcast, which began airing in 2007. It is hosted by comedian Jordan Morris, a writer on the Comedy Central show @midnight, and Jesse Thorn, a public radio host. The show is part of Maximum Fun, an independent podcast and radio show production organization founded and run by Thorn. The format of the show is typically a conversation between"
"Going for a Song Going for a Song was an antiques quiz show broadcast by the BBC from 1965-1977. It was a forerunner of the ""Antiques Roadshow"". The original television series was hosted by presenter Max Robertson, with Arthur Negus appearing as the resident expert and antique valuer. Revivals of the programme were made in the 1990s, hosted by Michael Parkinson (1995-1999), and Anne Robinson (2000), with Eric Knowles as the resident antiques expert, and in 2001 by Michael Aspel. The host would introduce an antique to a panel of antique experts, valuers and celebrity panellists who would examine the"
"many tourists throughout the year. http://wrko.org/talentpgs/ginsburg.html Arnie Ginsburg Arnie ""Woo-Woo"" Ginsburg (born August 5, 1926) was an American disc jockey in the Boston radio market from the mid-1950s to the 1970s. Following this period, he became involved in the business side of radio as a business manager, president and owner of WVJV-TV, and later as an executive with Pyramid Broadcasting and program manager of their Boston station WXKS/1430. Arnold William Ginsburg was born on August 5, 1926. He was raised in Brookline, Massachusetts, the son of Paul Ginsburg, who ran a millinery company and Sophia (Charak) Ginsburg, who had been"
"Give it a Go Give It a Go was an Australian television game show which aired in 1957. It was hosted by Jack Davey, who also hosted two other Australian game shows during the late-1950s, ""The Dulux Show"" and ""The Pressure Pak Show"", and was produced by Sydney station ATN-7 also airing in Melbourne on station GTV-9. It was sponsored by Persil, a laundry detergent. At least 13 kinescope recordings, maybe as many as 16 to 18, exist of the series at the National Film and Sound Archive, along with copies of a radio simulcast broadcast over the Macquarie Broadcasting"
"earnest. One episode in that series of shows is available through classic video sellers. After leaving ""Tic-Tac-Dough"" Jackson never hosted another quiz or game show, though he did narrate a series of Laurel and Hardy retrospectives during the 1960s. Jay Jackson Jesse Greene ""Jay"" Jackson (November 4, 1918 – August 16, 2005) was an American radio and television quiz show host and announcer. Jackson was the master of ceremonies of the panel quiz show ""Twenty Questions"" when it aired on the ABC Television Network starting in early 1953 and ending in May 1955. He then hosted the nighttime version of"
"Johnny Carson John William Carson (October 23, 1925 – January 23, 2005) was an American television host, comedian, writer, and producer. He is best known as the host of ""The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson"" (1962–1992). Carson received six Emmy Awards, the Television Academy's 1980 Governor's Award, and a 1985 Peabody Award. He was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1987. Carson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1992 and received a Kennedy Center Honor in 1993. During World War II, Carson served in the Navy. After the war, Carson started a career in radio."
"Arnie Ginsburg Arnie ""Woo-Woo"" Ginsburg (born August 5, 1926) was an American disc jockey in the Boston radio market from the mid-1950s to the 1970s. Following this period, he became involved in the business side of radio as a business manager, president and owner of WVJV-TV, and later as an executive with Pyramid Broadcasting and program manager of their Boston station WXKS/1430. Arnold William Ginsburg was born on August 5, 1926. He was raised in Brookline, Massachusetts, the son of Paul Ginsburg, who ran a millinery company and Sophia (Charak) Ginsburg, who had been a singer prior to marriage. Arnie"
"country from east to west: Halifax (Monday), Ottawa (Tuesday), Toronto (Wednesday), Winnipeg (Thursday) and Vancouver (Friday). Anne Murray appeared on the Halifax show, before she achieved huge popularity with ""Snowbird"". The Winnipeg show was hosted by Chad Allan, the former front man for The Guess Who. The Guess Who, fronted by Burton Cummings, played as the house band in Winnipeg. Susan Jacks (Pesklevits) was a regular performer on the Vancouver show before becoming the lead singer of the Poppy Family. Let's Go shows, starting in 1967 from Vancouver had a new host, Howie Vickers, followed by Mike Campbell, Terry Jacks,"
"Hollywood A Go-Go Hollywood A Go-Go was a Los Angeles-based music variety show that ran in syndication in the mid-1960s. It was hosted by Sam Riddle, with music by The Sinners and dancing by The Gazzarri Dancers. The program originated as a local series, ""Ninth Street West"", on KHJ-TV (Channel 9) in 1964. As ""Hollywood A Go-Go"", it was syndicated in early 1965 and ceased production in 1966, with some television stations airing the show as late as the summer of 1966. In its brief run (52 episodes), the show featured well-known acts like Tina Turner, The Rolling Stones, Chuck"
"Adam Carolla Adam Carolla (; born May 27, 1964) is an American comedian, radio personality, television host, actor, podcaster, and director. He hosts ""The Adam Carolla Show"", a talk show distributed as a podcast which set the record as the ""most downloaded podcast"" as judged by Guinness World Records in 2011. Carolla co-hosted the syndicated radio call-in program ""Loveline"" from 1995 to 2005 as well as the show's television incarnation on MTV from 1996 to 2000. He was the co-host and co-creator of the television program ""The Man Show"" (1999–2004), and the co-creator and a regular performer on the television"
"Garry Moore Garry Moore (January 31, 1915 – November 28, 1993) was an American entertainer, comedic personality, game show host, and humorist best known for his work in television. He began a long career with the CBS network on radio in the 1940s and was a television host on several variety and game shows from the 1950s through the 1970s. After dropping out of high school, Moore found success as a radio host and then moved on to the television industry. He was host to several daytime and prime time programs titled ""The Garry Moore Show"", and the game shows"
"Take a Chance (U.S. game show) Take a Chance is an American game show that aired live on NBC on Sunday night from October 1, 1950 to December 24, 1950. The show was hosted by film actor Don Ameche. Contestants were chosen from the studio audience and given five dollars. The contestant was then asked a series of four questions. If the first question was answered correctly, they kept the five dollars. Other correct answers were worth other winnings. The contestant could quit whenever they no longer wanted to ""Take a Chance"". If all four question were answered correctly the"
"contestant got a chance at the jackpot question worth a thousand dollars. Take a Chance (U.S. game show) Take a Chance is an American game show that aired live on NBC on Sunday night from October 1, 1950 to December 24, 1950. The show was hosted by film actor Don Ameche. Contestants were chosen from the studio audience and given five dollars. The contestant was then asked a series of four questions. If the first question was answered correctly, they kept the five dollars. Other correct answers were worth other winnings. The contestant could quit whenever they no longer wanted"
"Mike Bongiorno Michael Nicholas Salvatore Bongiorno (; May 26, 1924 – September 8, 2009) was an Italian-American television host. After a few experiences in the US, he started working on Italian TV in the 1950s and was considered to be the most popular host in Italy. He was also known by the nickname ""il Re del Quiz"" (The Quiz King), and the peculiarity of starting all his shows with his trademark greeting: ""Allegria!"" (""Cheers!"", ""Joy!""). Bongiorno was born in New York City, but moved to Turin (his mother's native city), when he was young. His father was a Sicilian-American lawyer"
"fall of 2007, Bongiorno received an Honorary degree in Television, Film and Multimedia production from the IULM University of Milan. Mike Bongiorno Michael Nicholas Salvatore Bongiorno (; May 26, 1924 – September 8, 2009) was an Italian-American television host. After a few experiences in the US, he started working on Italian TV in the 1950s and was considered to be the most popular host in Italy. He was also known by the nickname ""il Re del Quiz"" (The Quiz King), and the peculiarity of starting all his shows with his trademark greeting: ""Allegria!"" (""Cheers!"", ""Joy!""). Bongiorno was born in New"